Monday, 25 July 1955
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
Read the Third time and passed, without amendment.
As amended, considered.
As amended, considered.
Standing Order 208 (Notice of Consideration of Lords Amendments) suspended until the Summer Adjournment:
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in which areas off the coast of England and Wales he institutes conservation measures governing fishing by British vessels, other than...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what arrangements are being made to celebrate, in October, the Tenth Anniversary of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organisation...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much home-grown wheat of the 1954 crop has been purchased by flour millers in comparison with the amount so used from the 1953 crop; and...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he is aware that Mr. Blaxley, tenant of what remains of Eastfield Farm, Rushton, Northamptonshire, has had to quit SO acres of his...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many new fishing vessels are being built under the subsidy arrangements of the White Fish Authority; how the distribution runs among the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to what extent it is the practice of his Department, when envelopes are in use for the first time, to send them out with economy labels...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether, on the basis of preliminary reports, he will make a statement about the prospects of this year's harvest.
Mr. B. Harrison: asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in view of the fact that his Department has identified lucerne eelworm in a crop growing at Deal Hall,...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he is aware that the rising costs of potatoes, gas, electricity and frying oil are making it difficult for the fish and chip industry...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the estimated yield of grass per acre in 1952, 1953, and 1954, from permanent pasture and leys, respectively.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the herring fishing boats of North Shields were able to sail following the ban imposed by the Herring Board.
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to what extent the laying capacity of the British hen has improved since 1939.
On a point of order. I apologise, Mr. Speaker, for raising this matter, but last week I put down a Question to the Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether it has now been possible for the Forestry Commission to arrange to collect rates due to local authorities from their employees at the...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether the Forestry Commission has now been able to make arrangements for assisting occupiers of properties adjoining the Commission's...
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how far it is the practice of the Forestry Commission to provide a free issue of dustbins for use by their tenants.
asked the Minister of Health the number of cases for damages against National Health Service doctors and Hospital Management Committees brought in the last financial year; and in how many cases...
asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware of the anxiety of local authorities responsible for the implementation of the Sections of the National Assistance Act concerned with the welfare...
asked the Minister of Health (1) whether he is aware of the high incidence of pleural effusion and progressive primary tuberculosis lesions in young Irish girls who immigrate to Britain, and who...
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that Mr. A. Spall, 3, Coronation Cottages, Cleethorpes, an ex-naval pensioner, sent his invalid's motor vehicle for minor repairs to the official...
asked the Minister of Health how many vacancies there are for district nursing staff in Worcestershire.
asked the Minister of Health what discussions are taking place with the United States Government with a view to reciprocal arrangements being made for the provision of medical or hospital...
asked the Minister of Health the cost to the National Health Service last year of supplying medicine bottles; and whether he will institute a system of returnable deposits to effect economy.
asked the Minister of Health if he is aware of the growing practice of some insurance companies who, without requiring medical evidence, insure the lives of old-age pensioners who at the time...
asked the Minister of Health why the number of patients on National Health Service doctors' lists in the London area exceeds the population of London; and what action he will take to ensure more...
asked the Minister of Health to what extent, and why, the bulk purchase of medical equipment by his Department for resale to hospitals is declining.
asked the Minister of Health what steps are being taken by his Department to prevent the conduct of medical experiments with harmful effects on the patients concerned.
asked the Minister of Health the cost to the Newcastle Regional Hospital Board of the convalescent treatment by contractual arrangement for 1954–55 in lieu of beds available in the region.
asked the Minister of Health what administrative action he has taken to ensure that war pensioners requiring hospital treatment do not lose the priorities that were previously afforded in special...
asked the Minister of Health if he is now able to make a statement concerning the delay in the phase three re-building at Stoney Stanton Road Hospital, Coventry; and what is the present position.
asked the Minister of Health how far the acceptance of student nurses depends on the resource and decision of hospital matrons; and, in view of the easier position in respect of the number of...
asked the Minister of Health approximately how many mentally defective children were admitted into appropriate institutions in 1954; how many are now awaiting admission; what are the proposals or...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the official proposal made by Mr. Cabot Lodge in the United Nations General Assembly, that a scientific inquiry should be made...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will seek an agreed solution of the German problem at the Four-Power talks through the admission of Germany and all ex-enemy European...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what warships Her Majesty's Government have agreed to transfer to Egypt.
I will, with permission, make a statement which, by its nature, may detain the House for a few minutes, but I will be as short as possible. In my speech on 16th June, in the debate on the...
Bill to provide for the simultaneous holding of elections of rural district councillors and parish councillors; to require the expenses incurred in relation to the holding of elections of parish...
Proceedings on Government Business exempted at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House). — [Mr. Crookshank.]
Considered in Committee.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Clause stand part of the Bill.
Considered in Committee, and reported without Amendment.
Order for Second Reading read.
Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 84 (Money Committees).—[Queen's Recommendation signified.]
Considered in Committee.
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6.20 p.m.
7.22 p.m.
7.28 p.m.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Colonel J. H. Harrison.]
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